Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.